Pop Art
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Born from the neon-lit streets and consumer culture of post-war America and Britain, Pop Art was the movement that shattered the boundary between high art and everyday life, and Tilman Osterwold's definitive study chronicles its dazzling rise with authoritative precision. The book presents the key figures — Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton, and beyond — situating their groundbreaking works within the broader social and commercial landscape of the 1950s and 1960s, where Campbell's soup cans and comic-strip heroines became the radical new iconography of a generation. Osterwold argues that Pop Art was not merely a stylistic shift but a profound cultural statement, a mirror held up to mass media, advertising, and the mechanised reproduction of desire. His sharp, analytical prose dissects the movement's irony, wit, and subversive intent, illustrating how artists transformed the mundane into the monumental. Rich with full-colour reproductions and critical insight, this volume is an essential document for anyone seeking to understand how a can of soup or a silkscreened celebrity portrait could permanently alter the course of Western art — and why that provocation still resonates today.
Author: Tilman Osterwold
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Taschen
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Born from the neon-lit streets and consumer culture of post-war America and Britain, Pop Art was the movement that shattered the boundary between high art and everyday life, and Tilman Osterwold's definitive study chronicles its dazzling rise with authoritative precision. The book presents the key figures — Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton, and beyond — situating their groundbreaking works within the broader social and commercial landscape of the 1950s and 1960s, where Campbell's soup cans and comic-strip heroines became the radical new iconography of a generation. Osterwold argues that Pop Art was not merely a stylistic shift but a profound cultural statement, a mirror held up to mass media, advertising, and the mechanised reproduction of desire. His sharp, analytical prose dissects the movement's irony, wit, and subversive intent, illustrating how artists transformed the mundane into the monumental. Rich with full-colour reproductions and critical insight, this volume is an essential document for anyone seeking to understand how a can of soup or a silkscreened celebrity portrait could permanently alter the course of Western art — and why that provocation still resonates today.